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Disability and livelihood.

Nearly half of those with an annual household income of less than 15,000 dollars reported a disability.

1 in 3 unemployed adults who are able to work reported a disability.

4 in 10 adults who have not completed high school reported a disability.

Disability and health.

Adults with disabilities are more likely to be obese, smoke, have high blood pressure and be inactive:

38.4 percent of adults with a disability are obese while 24.4 percent of adults without a disability are obese.

30.3 percent of adults with a disability smoke while 16.7 percent of adults without a disability smoke.

41.7 percent of adults with a disability have high blood pressure while 26.3 percent of adults without a disability have high blood pressure.

36.3 percent of adults with a disability are inactive while 23.9 percent of adults with a disability are inactive.

Adults with disabilities are 3 times more likely to have heart disease, stroke, diabetes or cancer.

Making a difference.

Public health is for all of us.

Join CDC and its partners as we work together to improve the health of people with disabilities.
CDC and its partners work together to improve the lives of people with disabilities by:

Promoting healthy living,

Monitoring public health data

Research and reducing health disparities

Building inclusive health program

Supporting national and state programs.

* This data source does not assess deafness or serious difficulty hearing. Therefore state-level data on the number of people who have hearing difficulties was not collected and results in a likely underestimate in total number of people with disabilities in the U.S.

Brought to you by the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. The Division of Human Development and Disability.

Notes

Report Limitation: Currently, the BRFSS does not assess deafness or serious difficulty hearing. Therefore data on the number of people who have hearing difficulties at the state level was not collected. This results in a likely underestimate of the total number of people with disabilities in the U.S. presented in this report.